BancoSol: How to Become a Leader in Deposit Mobilization Part 4
In this video series-4, Kurt Koenigsfest, CEO of BancoSol, Bolivia, talks about the challenges they faced in the beginning. He mentions liquidity was a major issue. So, to promote savings the bank chose a mix of staff from both savings and lending background. He further describes the four key success factors that are critically important […]
Jun 23, 2011
BancoSol: Latin America’s First Commercial Microfinance Bank Part 2
In this video series-2, Jaime Zegarra regional manager of BancoSol, a MFI at El Alto in Bolivia, talks about the bank’s strategic focus: loan portfolio growth, portfolio quality, and expanding BancoSol’s client base. The video further interviews various clients of El Alto and how the banks timely assistance has helped them grow their business. Further, […]
Jun 9, 2011
Insights from a Microfinance Pioneer BancoSol 2
In this video series-2, Pancho Otero – the founding CEO of the Prodem Foundation, one of the global industry pioneers, explains how financial crisis will help microfinance institutions and their client. He shares his perspective on the importance of the enabling good legal environment and regulations to help produce mature microfinance institutions. Pancho sees the […]
Jun 6, 2011
BancoSol: Latin America’s First Commercial Microfinance Bank Part 1
In this video Jaime Zegarra, regional manager of BancoSol at El Alto in Bolivia talks about the ways in which the bank forms part of the community and connects with its clients. BancoSol is a true microfinance pioneer. As Latin America’s first commercial microfinance bank it has been much copied but never surpassed. Jaime says […]
May 2, 2011
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